Pax6 guides a relay of pioneer longitudinal axons in the embryonic mouse forebrain

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 479, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 399-409

  Nural, Hikmet F ^a   Mastick, Grant S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

A13; Axon guidance; Dopaminergic; Embryo; Knockout; Pax6; Stria medullaris; Supraoptic tract; Thalamus; Transcription factor; Tyrosine hydroxylase; Zona incerta

Indexed keywords

TRACER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; CELL INTERACTION; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EMBRYO CELL; ERROR; FOREBRAIN; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NERVE GROWTH; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; CARBOCYANINES; CELL COMMUNICATION; DOPAMINE; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GROWTH CONES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MUTATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROSENCEPHALON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; THALAMUS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 7544226522     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20317     Document Type: Article

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